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Patrick Star* and located in Bikini Bottom.
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a sea star catches food, by going up to its prey, using its suction cups to open the food up, and the sea star then pushes its stomach out of its mouth, and on to the food and chemicals from the sea stars mouth then kill the food, and the sea star rips the food from its shell, and digests it
Some sea stars are able to force open the shells of mollusks and bring their cardiac stomach (the sea stars) outside of its body into the shell of the mollusk and digest the mollusk. The sea star then brings its cardiac stomach back inside itself where further digestion takes place. Waste is excreted through the anus on the aboral side of the body. Yes, they "defecate"
its right in the middle of its body if you flip a star fish over you will see its mouth the mouth when eating leads straight to the digestive system (stomach) its located between all five arms
A sea star is called a sea star simply because of where it lives (the sea) and what it looks like (a star), simple!
It forces its stomach out, and sticks it inside of the clams shell. Then with the clam inside of the stomach, the starfish puts its stomach back on its inside. A sea star opens up a clam by attaching its hundreds of tube feet to the external surface of the shell with suction. Then, it pulls. It might have to pull for hours, or days, until the adductor muscle holding the shell firmly closed is finally weakened enough that the shell opens. Then the star fish can force its stomach in and digest the soft insides of the clam.
It forces its stomach out, and sticks it inside of the clams shell. Then with the clam inside of the stomach, the starfish puts its stomach back on its inside. A sea star opens up a clam by attaching its hundreds of tube feet to the external surface of the shell with suction. Then, it pulls. It might have to pull for hours, or days, until the adductor muscle holding the shell firmly closed is finally weakened enough that the shell opens. Then the star fish can force its stomach in and digest the soft insides of the clam.
star fish do not use its stomach to eat.
no, a sea star is a vertebrate!
the sunflower sea star
Sea stars have a unique method of eating. The animal will actually evert its stomach outside of its body and insert it into the shell of the mollusk, for example, it is prying open. The stomach will then engulf and begin to digest the prey before it is pulled back into the inside of the sea star.